Youth@work: A partnership for employment of young women and men in Morocco

This project component builds on a previous project supported by CIDA under which ILO’s entrepreneurship education package (Know About Business – KAB) was introduced into secondary schools, TVET and six higher education institutions. This project contributes to improving the quality and impact of the entrepreneurship education by improving coordination and linkages between the public and private sector stakeholders involved. The project provides ongoing technical assistance to curricula developers, ministry representatives (employment, education) and local experts. Finally, it also assists the Office de la formation professionnelle et de la promotion du travail (OFPPT) in mapping employment services in order to create a referral system for graduates. A competitive call for youth-led projects is made through the Youth Employment Network’s ‘Youth to Youth’/Y2Y fund. The ILO’s Women’s Entrepreneurship Development (WED) assessment methodology/tools is implemented by national researchers to formulate evidence based and consulted policy recommendations that can be used by government, women entrepreneurs’ associations and employers’ organizations. Six Public employment centres located in the three pilot regions are supported to become the ‘focal point’ for information on available employment and entrepreneurship programmes for young women and men. Key employability tools such as career counselling, soft skills and gender equality training, empowerment coaching, job matching and financial literacy are reinforced among the centres’ staff. Local business development and financial service providers are supported and strengthened so that they are capable of offering training and bundle other support services for young women and men in the three pilot regions, one of which is rural.

Project symbol

MOR/12/03/CAN

Admin unit

EMP/SEED

Start date

12/03/2012

End date

29/06/2018

Total allocation

7345965

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

7345965

Development Partners

Canada, Global Affairs Canada

Country/Countries

Morocco

Outcomes

Outcome 4: Sustainable enterprises as generators of employment and promoters of innovation and decent work